Lagspike_exe
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Inanna said:I seem to recall Valor beating SVER's ass really bad in the beta.
We'll see about that. :lol
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MAG |OT| 256-Player Battles, Lots of Teamwork, Not So Much Auto-Aim
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We'll see about that. :lol
NullPointer said:
I'd offer a couple of things:
1) When in doubt, and when you have a competent Squad Commander, go to the frago zone.
2) It's really great to travel in packs, especially when all of you have some kind of healing or rezzing skills. If someone goes down, revive, heal up, and slowly creep.
3) I would say, stick to the default objective point you're attacking / defending (Sabotage mode). If you choose to go over and battle at the other point, let someone know; even having one less person defend or attack a point really handicaps the squads you're leaving. If you do leave, make sure everyone is on board and there's a strategy in place (i.e. overrun one point, cap it, and have the original attacking squads stay while the others go cap the other).
Lagspike_exe
Member
depward said:
Cowardly behavior, as expected from the inferior factions.
No one dares face us head-to-head!
I think a way to mitigate the xp bonuses to healing/reviving, is to leave fewer reviveable bodies around. Any headshot should be a one-way ticket to respawn, but it seems like only sniper headshots accomplish this in the beta. I also wish the revival wasn't so easy and immediate. Instead of just spraying them with magical juice, maybe require a one second charge time that you have to be standing still for. It would make those dash and revives a lot more dangerous in the open.
Palmer_v1 said:
Yeah, you should have to "accept" a rez I think. Also, it wasn't like that with the headshots in the prior phases iirc. I wonder if it's a glitch because it doesn't happen all the time, but I do notice it happening. Maybe they changed it up.
Now pick the faction you're pledging to and start talking shit on all the other scums like everyone else here! J/k. :lol
J-Rzez said:
Do you play only with GAFfers/clan-members or do you play on pubs? Because it happens a LOT. People behave like they're playing counterstrike, they're afraid to die and so they wait for someone else to take the charge.
I've never seen this happen. I've seen whole teams die when they get to the objective, but never even getting there? There's plenty of cover in most of the maps.
Sure, but we're back to useless team-mates. Ditching the person you're supporting is as bad as taking potshots with iron-sights from 50m away.
They're not. I'll even say that it takes a lot more skill to be a good sniper and make a difference, which is why good snipers are hard to find. They really can soften the opposition, or force them to keep their heads down and not see the front-line creeping up on them. This is especially true when comparing to medics -- almost anyone can be a medic and actually contribute to the team, even if marginally, while a bad sniper is just dead weight.
Maybe they should offer an xp bonus for higher K/D ratios. Though high K/D ratio really doesn't translate directly into helping the team. Hell, there's at least one domination map in which the sniper can camp a spawn point while at the same point not really covering the objective properly. Objectives come first, always, and only people on the front-lines can capture them.
Maybe for 30-0. But I've seen several games in which people had terrific K/D ratios and we were still losing miserably, partly because the other team was better coordinated and partly because the best player wasn't directly helping any of the rushes. You have to be willing to switch your kit to whatever the situation calls for. And there are quite a few in which being a sniper isn't the best for the team. I'm not saying that you're not willing switch, but rather that at some points even a great sniper wouldn't be a as good for the team as a 'good' rifleman/LMGer.
Palmer_v1 said:
Your friends are welcome to join us as well as far as I'm concerned, as long as we don't hit the clans player limit and they don't mess around being dicks. Priority obviously goes to GAF members but if you have a friend or two you want to play with then the more the merrier, though I don't want completely random people joining us heh.
If anyone joining SVER GAF objects to this then say so, either PM or post but as MAG isn't really clan competitive but rather faction competitive then the more people we have to play with the better, in my opinion.
PedroLumpy
Member
Yeah I could never quite figure out the exact rules for rez vs respawn. The only thing I was really sure on was explosives = respawn.
Oh I agree, there's many times I'll have to switch out to an assault loadout as sniping doesn't work at certain parts. Like Raven's C on sabo. There's one good spot to snipe from, but if you have more than one doing that it's a waste. I'll grab my 94 and grenades and get into there.
dorkimoe
Gold Member
TheFallen said:
awesome thanks, doing that now, Ill be on to play in an hour or so but ill msg you now
its either locking up, or taking forever after i agree to the license, its just chilling ;\
yeah its not letting me make a character or anything. Its showing an empty character and no news or anything, just like outlines
Unfortunately the only way you can play right now is if you had signed up for the IGN tournament. Those signups closed awhile ago, so you are out of luck.dorkimoe said:awesome thanks, doing that now, Ill be on to play in an hour or so but ill msg you now
its either locking up, or taking forever after i agree to the license, its just chilling ;\
yeah its not letting me make a character or anything. Its showing an empty character and no news or anything, just like outlines
The next time you can play will be the 26th.
Automatisch
Member
Any room for Valor? PSN: Automatisch.
Cagen said:
Yeah definitely agree with this as we always get a large group saying they are gonna play and a good number just drift away after a week or so.
I'm sure Bignose from our KZ2 GAFe clan would love to join us on this so will get him to PM you on PSN (I'm sure he has you as a friend) when he gets round to picking this up.
PTCoakley said:
There's a thread for that, bro - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=19312597#post19312597.
Anerythristic
Member
PTCoakley said:
NO! ValorGAF is so small for a reason. To join you must slay an Alaskan Grizzly with nothing but a stone knife and spear. We are the chosen few.
please join, please.
SVER is where it's at Lince, just a couple of low life deserters have gone Raven. Check the thread in the online forum.Lince said:
Anyone order from play.com and recieved it early? They have changed the status of the game from "preorder" to "available now, dispatches with in 24 hours". I'll be annoyed that I didn't order from them to get the steel tin if I could have been playing on the 26th.
Ze_Pershing
Member
Kowak said:
After we (SVER) will kill you like dogs we will gather your limbs and have an awesome cook out in your back yard.
Slaylock
Member
MAG commercial - It only does 256 players
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/it-only-does-256-players/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/01/it-only-does-256-players/
templeusox
Banned
Very well done commercial. Maybe Sony's best yet. Funny, but still tells you the essentials of the game.Slaylock said:
I assume it will air during the NFL playoffs this weekend.
Holy crap, loved the commercial
Well, its not like it can be helped, the game doesn't have hype because reviews aren't out.... so it really is pointless for Sony to hype it before release.
Arsenic said:Just saw the commercial
Its great and probably their funniest one yet.
But i cant help but be upset Sony does nothing else to hype up its games. One commercial 4 days before its release....i dont know.
Well, its not like it can be helped, the game doesn't have hype because reviews aren't out.... so it really is pointless for Sony to hype it before release.
archnemesis
Member
You can also choose between a selection of different faces, voices, and the colors of your armor/clothes. There's no advanced character creator.Leunam said:
KZObsessed
Member
Awesome commercial :lol
Gonna join S.V.E.R ClearCELL?
ClearCELL said:
Gonna join S.V.E.R ClearCELL?
Ze_Pershing
Member
Inanna said:Yeah, the main reason why I don't wanna play with you SVER weirdos.
lol, isn't food limited in MAG? ...just sayin'. :lol
KGKK said:
Well, in general, that would be Raven...
...but in numbers, Valor GAF seems to have the least number of players, and the fact that Lyulf is more of a handicap.....:lol
RedStep said:
Sure buddy, tell me why would you put all your efforts on advertising an online only multiplayer game, which's main bullet point is the fact that has a massive amount of players online on vast maps.
People are still skeptical despite the praise of the beta phases. Sony needs reviews to back up the game.
People buy it at release, reviews come out (hopefully praising it), Sony advertises the game, people that were skeptical buy it based on reviews and they also see tons of people online.
Also, Battlefield is an established franchise, and BC2 is a sequel, oh, and if Im not mistaken, it does have single player campaign... so in other words, nothing like MAG, I really don't know why you brought it up :lol
Anerythristic
Member
KGKK said:
Underdog? I don't know, ValorGAF needs members though. I am literally running a membership drive. It tough because we are paranoid and think people aren't joining us because Valor is the "American" faction in the game, which isn't even true. :lol
So join ValorGAF.
Little_Luke
Neo Member
These commercials make me proud to be a Sony fanboy. Oh ... and so does MAG and GoWIII and Gran Turismo and ... well you get the point. The 26th can't come fast enough